The Chinese Communist Party and China's capitalist revolution : the political impact of the market / Lance L. P. Gore.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- Rationale of the book -- Recent literature -- Sources and methodology -- Chapter outlines -- 2. Conceptual issues and the theoretical framework -- The CCP as a political party -- Political impact as institutional conflict -- From adaptation to assimilation: a theoretical framework -- 3. The logic of organizational atrophy -- The microinstitutional foundation of the CCP's rule -- Overall impact of the market -- The atrophy of rural party organizations -- Conclusions -- 4. The Party in the new social spaces -- The Party in the mobile population -- The Party and the new classes -- Party building on college campuses -- Conclusions -- 5. The Party in corporate governance -- The decline of the Party in industrial organizations -- The Party in corporate governance -- The Party in private businesses -- Assessment -- 6. Community Party building -- Transformation of the urban social landscape -- A Party in disarray -- Strategies of adaptation -- Assessment -- 7. The Communist Party in a capitalist revolution -- The political impact of the market -- From adaptation to transformation -- What is becoming of the CCP? -- Conclusions and implications.

The Chinese Communist Party and China{u2019}s Capitalist Revolution examines issues of political change and development in China. In the last 30 years China has experienced a profound political transformation and a degree of political progress but these are largely mired in the assumption that the free market is inherently incompatible with communism, and the perceived lack of political reforms in China. Indeed, there has not been much in the sense of democratization, multi-party competition, freedom of speech and association, but as this book demonstrates, political development is not limited to these factors. Based on extensive empirical investigations of the impact of the market on the communist party, with a particular focus on its grassroots organisations, this book finds that the Chinese communist party is undergoing profound changes in a host of important areas. By analyzing the impact of China{u2019}s socioeconomic transformation on the CCP and the adaptations of the Party to the new environment the book takes stock of the nature and dynamics of political change underway in China. The author concludes that the Chinese communist party we knew no longer exists{u2014}it is evolving into something quite different, which must have political implications for both China and the rest of the world.